The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

'RE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From tine Times Corresponeent.) NEW YORK, May 31. General Grant having discovered that the direct road to Richmond, to be traversed with the loss of from 10,000 to 15,000 men per mile, was practically impassable, has changed his tactics. Twice he at tempted, in a series of battles extending over ten days, to cut his way by sheer brute force through the obstacles opposed to his march, and twice, if not actually beaten back, he was foiled with tre mendous slaughter. At his third halting-place on the bank of the North Anna, he found the impedi ments much more formidable than those of the Wilderness or Spottsylvania Court-house, and paused to consider what was to be done. The par tisans, both of the North and the South, were equally anxious that at this point he should once more try the mettle of his legions. The Federalists had an idea that Lee's army was decimated, demor alised, and hopeless, and that Grant had only to fight with the fierceness and tenacity of his open ing battles to overbear all opposition, scatter the panic-stricken hosts of the South, and rush con. Tiering and to conquer into Richmond. The Con federates, on the contrary, maintained that the position between the North and the South Anna was that in which, above all others, Lee would have preferred to try conclusions with his adversary, and that it was the place on which he had lavished all the resources of his military and engineering skill. For these reasons they hoped that Grant would resort to his old policy, and risk everything upon the issues of battle. Grant took time for reflection. He studied the work to be done, an after a repose of several days, varied only by an occasional skirmish between the outposts and a few feints to discover the whereabouts of particular divisions of the opposing army, came to the conclusion that the position was in all respects what it was represented to be, and was only to be taken at such an awful sacrifice of life as to make it cruel, if not insane, to attempt it. He, therefore, determined upon another flank movement, and hastily, secretly, and successfully transferred his whole army by forced marches to the north bank of the Pamunkey—a river formed by the junction of the North .and South Anna—where he took up a new position at Hanovertown, within about 15 miles of Richmond. On Sunday he crossed the Pamun key, and occupied a position about three miles to the south of the stream. Should the attempt to enter Richmond by this route prove as hope less as these previously made, we may next expect to hear of this alert and indefatigable in • vader at M'Clellan's old - quarters amid Cie swamps of the chickahominy ; or, giving these the go-by, because of their noted unhealthiness during the summer heats, which have already begun to blaze upon the land with a fury equal to that of the dog days in our milder Europe, he will perhaps effect a junction with General Butler at Bermuda Hundred, on the James, and try to break into Richmond by the back door. It will be, observed that in all these movements General Grant keeps the rivers and his transports behind him, and that in case of defeat he can save his army from destruction by the aid of a numerous and well-appointed flotilla both on the Rappahannock and the James. It will be observed that the strategy leaves Washington undefended; and that while he "pounds awa3" (the popular phrase just now) at Riaiaiond, Lee may leave the Southern capital to General Beauregard and 40,000 or 50,000 men—quite adequate for its defence—and march to the Northern capital with the remainder of his army, either by the Shenandoah or the direct route. It is not considered, however, by military critics that Lee will undertake an expedition of this magnitude, but that a a series of battles on the Chicka hominy will either give him the victory or force him into Richmond. Bat amid all this din of war the din of politics is not silenced. The Baltimore Convention meets this day week to nominate Mr. Lincoln for re-elec tion, and towards that pleasant city are flocking the delegates from all parts of the country—the great shoddy interest, the contracting interest, the place holding interest, the place-expecting interest, and that very numerous class of political thinkers who, without much respect for Ali.. Lincoln's character, and none for his abilities, arc sincerely of opinion that a change in the Presidency at a time like this is a national peril. One section of Mr. Lincoln's quondam supporters and present opponents have endeavoured to forestall or deeat the action of the Baltimore Convention by summoning an indepen dent Convention of all parties at Cleveland, in Ohio. That Convention opens its deliberations to-day. Though all parties have been summoned, none but Republicans have been erected, and these, to the number of between 1,500 and 2,000 have swarmed into Cleveland with bat one purpose in their minds —to nominate General Fremont. They are sincere in their convictions that " State rights" are of no farther use in the government of America ; that their day has gone by; that State lines must be so far obliterated as to be of no greater political value than the lines of a county or a township; that a great and homogeneous nation and a strong Go. vernment must be created out of the ruins of the Federative system; that slavery, serfdom, - . . n a social and political disqualification on acce_ dot o f colour must be abolished ; that the. Monroe doctrine must be maintained at all azarda ; that General Fremont is the able, the edmistent, and the proved champion of " free spe.,ch, free soil, and free men," and of all the i:eas that naturally grow oat of them; that he is a gentleman as well as a s tatesman, and fi t t e d b oth b y h i s manners and his education, to reflect honour upon the chief magistracy, instead of making it a laughing-stock in the eye s of the world ; and that for these and countless other reasons, of which the egregious in capacity of INTr. Lincoln is not the least, it is both t h e duty and the policy of the Repu lean party hi' to I unite their vote in his favour. The Germans in the w es t, who are declared to be a unit on the question, are enthusiastic for the' Pathfinder ;" the Germans in New York and other large Cities go with their countrymen; v,rid as they have the support of the churches an , of such men as Dr. Cheever, D r , T yng, Mr. War t Beecher, and Mr. Wendell Phil lips, and the great bulk of the educated and contemplative Abolitionist party, who despise Mr. Lincoln for hi s 'Want of manners and education, and distrust him for his lukewarmness in the cause, which appears to • them too sacred to be taken up or let fall as expe diency may dictate, it is all but certain that the Cleveland nomination will be as enthntiastie for Fremont as that at Baltimcre promises to be for Lincoln. A few friends of Gen. Grant have mnst:ired at Cleveland, as they will probably do et Baltimore, to urge the claims of the hero of Vicksburg upon the gratitude of his countrymen ; but as Grant has not asked for the nomination—us it is not certain that he would accept it, if offered—as it is not known to any one that he has any poiitieal principles at all, or any talents except those which find their normal exercise in the env or the battle field —and as, moreover, his defeat on the Chickahort iny or at Ber muda, Hundred would mak3 an end of him as thoroughly in a political as in a military sense, and consign him to obscure servi39 on the Indian fron tier, or perhaps to privßto life at his tan-yard in Missouri, his friends labour under many disad vantages in pressing his claims, and are not likely to advance his prospects at either convention. On the other hand, if signal, undoubted victory should reward his efforts before Richmond, he will need no aid of convention s to jump into the Presidential chair. Success in the field would make him Presi dent in spite of himself, so that in view of all the circumstances his friends but waste their energies in premature discussions of his candidacy. The next mass meting summoned for Saturday even i ng in Union square, in this city , with the o bj ect of nominating him to the Presidency by ac c l amation of the crowd instead of by the ordinary machi nery of a party convention, will, of course, afford the opportunity of speech- ni akir.g nod sp2ech •b eer i ng, both so dearly beloved by the Yankee multitude, but will be of no further importance, unless : on or before that particular day, the victory his friends expect shall hare .been fairly won. In that improbable contingency the meeting would become a fortiante accident, and be the signal and forerunner of a series of popular gatheringa, th e for ce o f which no other candidate could help to withstand. The friends of General ll'Cleilan keep discreetly quiet. Their convention will not be held until the end of Jane, during which time the claims put for ward on behalf of bat not by General Grant will probably be decided one way or another by himself or General Lee. With Grant as President, General WC!ellen would, doubtless, be reinstated in high command, so that WC:ellan's policy is to watch and wait, and take advantage of any divisions in the ranks of his opponents which may serve to keep his name before the public, and gather round it the great Conservative party that still believe in State rights, and see in a centralised Government the inevitable downfall of republican liberty. If he eould serve that party as President, he could also serve it as Commander•in-Chief. Thus Grant's success or failure will equally serve his purpose. In the one case he may be at the head of the army; in the other at the head of the State, so that he, of all men, has most reason to maintain his soul in peace and leave events to their natural solution. Mr Lincoln's temporary suppression of the World and the Journal of Commerce for being as ready to be deceived by a forgery as his Secretary of State in Washington and his Ambassador in London has considerably damaged his popularity. In America a man is either very much praised or very much execrated. The people have no medium is their love or hate. Their generals must either be Napoleons or "stunted corporals," and their lead ing men paragons of honesty and virtue, or knaves and imbeciles. Mr Lincoln has had his "heated term," in which it was the fashion to endow him with every possible good quality, and in which, if a blunder were brought home to him, the all-sufficient excuse and palliative was found in his immeasurable and unprecedented honesty. The cold fit is now upon his reputation, and he who was so great before finds none to do him reverence, except those who expect favour or fortune at his hands. The journal which was the first to recom mend him for re-election has changed its tone, and denounces him with a virulence of ill-will of which no journal in the world is so great or so mean an exemplar. It states that the renomination of Mr Lincoln will be an attempt to perpetuate the petty despotisms, the gross corruptions, and the unparalleled abuses of the past four years, and that the slightest probability of his success will intensely infuriate the masses of the people; that the politi cians, by simply nominating two or three weak candidates, may allow Lincoln to slip in between them ; but that if this old game, frequently played and generally successful, be attempted while the people are in their present temper, it will not answer for the consequences. It adds that "riots, burnings, assassinations, barricades, and a revolution will probably ensue, All that the people want is a fair chance to defeat Lincoln. Give them that by nominating such a man as Grant, and all will be well. Attempt to cheat them out of it by nominating half a dozen weak men in order to divide the opposition vote, and Lincoln's re-election will be the signal for such an upheaval of the North as has never before been witnessed." It requires but little knowledge of the American character to know that this wicked prophecy will not bs fulfilled, and that if Mr. Lincoln were elected by a legal vote —whether resulting from the split in his own or the opposing party--tiae people would very quietly submit to the infliction. The danger to the public peace does not lie in that direction. A defeat of Grant and a call for another half a million of men, to be taken from the ranks of labour by conscription, are the rocks ahead. Tne people respect the civil law but they chafe at the introduction of a military law which would deprive them of their liberty, and is in opposition to their prejudice and whole course of life and thought. They detest and abhor the conscription, and rather than submit to it they will run any risk of violence in opposing it, as every houseowner and capitalist in New York well knows, and as every public man of the least foresight is but too thoreughly convinced. Neither is there much dangerof such a multiplicity of candidates es will greatly increase Mr. Lincoln's chancos. Banks and Butler are out of the way— ruined by military failure ; and there remain but Grant, M'Clellan, Lincoln, and Fremont. In the ex ent of any mishap to Grant, it seems as if the real struggle will lie between the Revolutionists and Radicals under Fremont,and the Con'Arvativesunder MT:ellen, and that poor Mr. Ijincoln will have to quit his perilous honours dnd his thorny chair in 1865, and retire to Ill;, no i s to practise law in the county of Eauguolin. Happy will it be for him if at the end of . nio troubled career, health, a good appetite, efia the power to indulge in his little jokes be still left to him ; happy also if he do not expect the gratitude which he will never obtain, or any other place in his country's history but that reserved for all weak men of good intentions, who do mischief without meaning it, and ruin the coun try which it was their ambition to save. The price of gold, which yesterday ran suddenly up to 941, the highut yet attained, dropped to-day to 88 1; but not . In consequence o f any favourable news from the restorp army or other cir cums t ances ten di ng to . the drooping spirits of the people, but because Mr .;base was represented in Wall.street by an agent Authorised to sell a surplus, real or supposed, in the National Treasury. The agent threw half a million of gold and sterling bills into the market, with the sole object of reducing the premium, and accom plished it. Mr Chase thereby sacrificed the sum of 30,000 dole. and upwards, for the poor satisfaction of making financial matters look six per cent. less gloomy to-morrow on the departure of the Persia than they would have done had he not been in readiness to discount for a time the bull operators of the Exchange. No one expects gold will remain at the lower level to which it was thus forced, not even if victory in Georgia or Virginia should occur to prevent a too rapid rise. It is understood better than it used to be that it is the immense volume of the paper currency and not the varying military fortunes of the day which causes the depreciation in greenbacks. No victory that does not end the war will put paper and gold on a level ; and that , the war will be ended even by the capture of Rich mond few are now so sanguine as to believe. TUE SCZNE OF THE IMPENDING BATTLE.--The situation of both the opposing armies in Virginia is sub, at the latest advices, that a battle may be considered imminent. In view of this fact a brief topographical descrip tion of the battle-field may not be uninteresting. Both armies are now in Hanover county, with the North Anna on the north and the Chickahominy on the south. Lee's army, as is announced in official despatches from General Grant, is on Mechanicsville-road, south of the Tolopotonion slyer, one of the tributaries of the Pamunkey, and between that stream and Hawes's shop, with his right resting on Shady Grove. The surface of Hanover county is billy, and the soil sandy, but there are few natural impediments to the operation of an a rmy. Hanover Court house, the county seat, s memorable as the scene of Patrick Henry's early career, and as the birthplace of Henry Clay. The object of Leo will be to p re serve the r e b e l cap i ta l f rom t h e advance of General Grant, and for this reason he has selected a field a leading t o Ri c h mon d . Gene ral Grant seems inclined t o g i ve his enemy which covers all the hi e b eva _ y no oppor tuuity to move north ward, a nd theref ore h as ordered the destruction le, roadvvhfrom of the bridges over Little and the North Anna rivers. Lee's left —assuming that he faces to the south- is protected by I lanovertown crosses this which i sthtreeaCmhicakt6 013. a turnpike five miles northwest of Richmond. There is another road just in the rear of this which also leads to the rebel capital. In a ll ll l7 ll ch i a n n Y i . cs T e l t i ; moving down these roads General Grant will encounter the lines of Lee's army, and the situation is so con tracted that there is little probability o f another tank movement being successful, If the Chickahominy is in tended by Lee as the last line of defence, the position has been well chosen. The stream itself is peculiarly adapted to the defensive warfare. The river is a small one, and flows sluggishly. It divides itself into half a dozen strearolets, running into and out of each other at random. These water-courses occupy a space about 70 yards in width. Immense trees grow up out of the water, and the entire stream is covered by thick woods. It is a remarkable in. stance of a river running through and watering a long strip of woods. From each side of this woodland a flat surface extends for about half a mile. This is nearly always over flowed, and becomes an impassable morass. It is only when the water in the river is very low that men can safely walk upon the ground bordering it. On the flat surfaces there is not a solitary tree. They are bare, and anything moving upon them can easily be discerned. From the borders of these plains huge hills, in some cases 200 and 300 feet high, abruptly rise. They are covered with thick woods, and are so steep that waggons cannot be hauled directly up their face. The few roads go down them diagonally to the bridges, across the swamp and river. This Chickahominy valley, one of the strongest in America, is the outer defence of Richmond. From the tops of the hills on the one side, across the swamp to the hill-tops on the other side, the distance varies from a mile to a mile and a-half. The ordi nary 12 -pounder rifled Napoleon gun just about throws a shell from one hill -top to the other. From the Fredericks burg railroad crossing down to New-bridge, a distance of eight miles, the Confederate works are all along tho hills on is southern border.--Aete York World, June I. THE StrN, LON.IION:, ' MONDAY tiriCiiiiNit Mit 12, 1864. The Chatham Siege Review, sprung their first torpedo under water. These tor pedona, the moat modern and most destructive en. gine of river warfare, were ranged in a line of six across the mouth of the creek. Some were made of tin cases, other were differently contrived on a new principle, on which it is unnecessary to be more explicit, and all were lit by the voltaic battery, carrying the spark through insulated wires into the centre of the charge. Though these tor pedoes had been down 4 week in 30 feet of water, and contained charges varying from 1001 b to 1601 b of powder, yet not one failed to explode. The first, et threw a great mass of water r h a 60 s fe m e a t ll ha int c ot rg he air, and at this alarm all the boats drew hurriedly away, as column after column of water and smoke rising to a tower ing height, and falling in a shower of foaming spray all over the creek, sh owe d the i mm i nence of the danger they had escaped. The last of the tor pedoes fired was one containing 1601 b. of powder, and the effect of this was apparently tremendous enough in force to have broken the back of a three decker. In the meantime the besiegers were by no 'nears idle; on the contrary, the fire of both guns and rifles was redoubled, if possible, from every point, and it was evident that the crisis of the general assault was at hand. The besiegers four howitzers, and all th ese were go i ng at once, had altogether 11 heavy guns, eight mortars, and when suddenly there was a lull, and on the left and centre the assaulting columns were seen hurrying across the open with scaling ladders. In a few minutes afterwards these were planted by the left column at the re-entering angle of the redan, andthe men h o uswarmedh the e p like bees on to th e para pet.parapet was eas ily ga i ne d, th e Buttg work of this column Was only begun, for beyond lay one of the permanent dry ditches of the Chat ham lines—a brick fosse some 30 feet deep and nearly 50 feet wide. There was no escalading or jumping this, and the besieged were keeping up a fierce fire on the column from the interior line of works beyond the fosse. The advance of the left column was thus completely checked, but not for long. Covered by the fire of their comrades, a group of sappers crept round the edge of the ditch with guy ropes, and then, once across, those left on the other side affixed the ropes to a single-legged " turtle," which was hauled into the centre of the fosse, and then steadied by the guy ropes, and with this for their centre pin, the sappers, with marvel. lons rapidity, proceeded to construct a Birogah bridge—a piece of military engineering which we have copied from the Austrians, as we have copied so very many other good ideas of theirs of the same kind. Actually in almost less time than we have taken to describe it this bridge across the fosse was built, and built so strongly that the instant it was finished hundreds of men dashed across it, and even cannon was afterwards brought over it. Directly this work was done there was an end of the defence of the parapet by the be sieged, who retired behind a strong timber palisade which enclosed the rear of the work; and between the interstices of this they kept up a fire on the attacking column, which was then again checked. There was no scali ng thi s fence n or forcing it with out cannon ; so cannon were sent for, and as no horses could move in such a place, the men had to do the work themselves, and splendidly they did it. They got a field piece up a bank which they them selves had previously to scale with ladders, got it over the Birogah turtle, and lowered it bodily down, ammunition waggon and all, into the courtyard in front of the palisade, and with its first discharge made the defence of the latter hopeless. The be• sieged saw that all was over at this part of the defences, and retired in more haste than order— that is, to use an Americanism—they " ran like blacks." Their now pursuers were instantly through the stockade and close upon them, while the work of the single gun which was firing through the stockade into the retreating mass of the be siegers was supposed to prevent their re-forming. The attacking column, therefore, cleared the de- One of these scientific displays for which this garrison is so deservedly fame e, and which from the natural facilities of the situation cau be made to combine movements both by land and water on the most exte ns i ve sca l e , t oo k place on i Saturday n b ithe presence of a great assemblage of spectators. It is seldom that mere than one of these great siege assaults can he given at Chatham in the year, for the simple reason that their proper fulfilment involves all, the labour in the Way of throwing up regular parallels which would be re quired in an actual siege. In fact, for the last three months Chatham at the *weakest part of its defences, the flank of the works on St. Mary's Creek, has been regularly and scientifically besieged —the first, second, and third parallels constructed, and every thing brought to that state at which nothing re. mains but to deliver the general assault. Of course it is part of the Engineers' education to gain such a practical knowledge of siege works as can only be derived from the formation of regular approaches against a regularly fortified p'ace. Thus, all the works through which the attack was delivered on Saturday were constructed with precisely the same solidity and care as they would be by an enemy if attacking the garrison from St. Mary's Creek, and all the knowledge to be derived from the lesson of throwing up the works having then been achieved advantage was taken of their completion to give the public the spectacle of a final assault before all was destroyed and filled again. The attack was supposed to be made by daylight, and the besieged prepared to meet it by countermines under the most advanced of the enemies' works—the trench cavalier, which overlooked them, and the lodgment they had made on the glacis of the Redan. They had also sunk torpedoes in St. Mary's Creek, across which they had constructed a boom, and as further security to this flank, had erected a strong blockade to prevent their line being turned. The besiegers were to com mence operations by blowing up the boom, opening fire along the whole line, forcing the passage of the creek in boats, while another assault by escalade on two points was made on the land side, where the breaching mines under the works of the besieged were sprung, end, through the opening Effected by these, a general assault made. A review so novel and so varied in its operations of course drew together a great muster of visitors. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Louis of Hesse, and the Duke of Cambridge, with a large staff of officers, including Sir Richard Airey, Sir John Burgoyne, Lard Alfred Paget, Major Elphinstone, Hon. Col. Wrottesley, Colonel Keppel, Major' Cowell, &c., came down to be present on this occasion, The Royal party travelled from Victoria in a special train, and were received at Chatham by Lord Harris, the chairman of the company, and General Eyre, the Commandant. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge both wore the un dress uniform of Generals, the Prince having also the Star of the Order of the Garter on his breast; Prince Alfred wore the full uniform of a lieutenant in the navy, Prince Arthur a Highland dress, and Prince Louis the Prussian cavalry uni form in which he appeared at the volunteer review in Hyde -park. Asznall party of German and French officers also followed in the royal suite. It was at one time announced that the Princess of Wales would honour the review with her presence, and great was the disappointment when it was known she would not come. Perhaps, however, on think ing the matter over, the good folio of Chatham will be consoled by recoilecting that England has much more gratifying spectacles to afford the Princess than a public illustration of the terrible facility with which numbers can overpower an ill -succoured fortification. The royal party on their arrival par took of luncheon at the mess of the Royal Engi neers, after which chargers were , brought round fur the whole of the large party, who rode off at once to the first parallel, and so by the connecting zig• zags made a complete circuit of the besiegers' works. This occupied some little time, for they were of con siderable extent, aud, as we have said, of the same solidity as the approaches used in warfare—better in most respects, and especially as regards finish, than any the English made in the Crimea. This inspection over, their Royal Highnesses proceeded to a small casemated battery in the centre, between the right and left attacking columns, and so placed fenders from the casemate barracks with little oppo sition, and, still following the besieged, forced their way through the postern and over the right face of the work into Prince Edward's Bastion, where the besieged surrendered, and the struggle was at end at this point. On the centre the attack was shorter and equally fi su rs c t ce w s i s t f h ul a . ru T sb h , e oa c r o r l y u i ni n n g t b l e " c n 1 1 Os ' d e lalmostof r a i fl t e o p u k e s ' i p n o d o e r e d b : s f i o e r g , e h d a a v t i n this o p w o i n n t o ve f e e r a e r v o e f r very booms ohoamr s d which covered the front of th e b es i ege d wor k s. The porrestsoerd boats fill e d w i t h t roops werep ed oe s s e beforeen hurrying fast eyes, up the creek, an d, i n sp i te getting past th e bat ofntergi e a s .n and defend d e t ach I m b e e n s t t o w e a k s a s d e e n , t w t h o a heavy fire, succeeded in anoth opposet h e r e l e t sought to dislodge the assailants from the rifle pits in front of the batteries. Both attempts failed. The sailors and troops landed after a hot fi g ht, an d all b e i ng now ready, the besiegers sprung their great mine fullin w t a h s e bceeanotrteifoolflythleaiden:amnd was enemies' the most , batteries. This mine im portant mine of the day. It consisted of several 2001 b. charges, placed at a great depth, so that when at the proper moment it was fired the mass of earthworks rose with a heavy, sullen heave, and were spread over the earth, leaving an aperture through which waggons might be driven. Before the smoke had cleared away t h e co l umn was a t a run to storm this breach, which was still desperat ely defended by the besieged, till ano th er l ou d explo sion far behind told that the landing party had blown up the stockade and taken all of what now remained of the whole lino of defences completely in the rear. Thence it was a running and hopeless fight on the part of the besieged. They retired to their inner line, which may b e cons id er ed as a re trenchment, near the Cumberland Bastion, but had now to meet the attacks both of the centre column and that which had landed up the creek. Between the two this last line was soon forced in two places, amid a tremendous din of cannon and musketry. The final fight of the besieged brought the proceedings to a close, after a short, though one of the most varied and brilliant reviews which the public have ever seen. At the close of the review the troops marched past in front of the Engineers' Memorial Arch, near the barracks, and this over, the Royal party returned at once to Victoria Station in a special train, which only stopped to set down P r ince Arthur and Major Elphinstone at Beckenham, on their way t o Black heath. Lient,-Colonel L o vell, C.B R.E., was the engineer officer directing the attack , and Lieut . - Colonel Browne, C. 8., defended the works, while the boat party was under Captain Studdart, R.N. Attached to the several columns of attack were the following engineer officers:— Left Attack.—T o a tt e nd the column, Lieutenant Burke; trench cavalier, Lieutenant Wynne. Centre Attack.—To attend the column, Lieute nant Brooke; lodgment, Lieutenant Bell. Right Attack.—To clear the breaches, Lieute nants Clayton, L. K. Scott, and Watkins; in charge of 3-pounders, Lieutenant Larminie. Boat Attack.—To destroy the boom, Lieutenant Frere ; to dest ro y th e s tockade, Lieutenant Richard son ; to lead th e troops, boats, &c., Lieutenant Ramsey; gunb oa t s , Lieutenant Heneage. Reserve.—Left column, Lieutenant Taylor; right column, Lieutenant BougheY• as to command an entire view of the operations, both by land and water. Oa the left, near the creek, was the weak part of the position, where amid a debris of rough brickwork rose a much de faced battery with a litter of gabions behind it pre cisely similar, though on a smaller scale, to the position of the Russian Redan. This resemblance became painfully striking, when at the final move- went such thin and weak columns were seen issuing across the open to attack it. On the right the besieged were not much better off. The guns of the third parallel looked down upon them, a nest of rifle pits were in their front, while down into the Redan, their last hope, a trench cavalier—that is a strong earthwork with its parapet covered with sandbags, with intervals between them for the riflemen to fire through —the strongest kind of loopholed wall in fact—was waiting for the signal to deal oat its murderous volleys. The besieged garrison were all men of the Marine Artillery, the besiegers Marines and Royal Engineers, so that the difference between the red uniforms of the latter and the blue undress of the former marked the lines of attack and defence most clearly. Before three o'clock all were in their places, and the view from the summits of the casemates, which were crowded with spectators, was wonderfully fine. The wide- spreading angular lines of attack and defence were clearly visible at every point, with the troops lying close in wait behind them. Oat to sea, or at least on the waters of the Medway, mined with the white hulls of the convict ships, lay several men-of-war, hugely conspicuous above them all being the dark hull and four lofty masts of the Achilles, round which and other ships was swarming quite a fleet of little boats firmed with guns, and filled with troops, waiting for the signal to make their dash at the creek and turn the works by landing in their rear. Suddenly, amid profound quiet, the signal was given, soon after 3 o'clock, by a dull, heavy explosion from the middle of St. Mary's Creek, fol lowed by a quick rising column of smoke and water, which carried the fragments of the destroyed boom high into the air. All eyes were fixed on it as the mass slowly fell, leaving the creek covered with smoke and foam, and then on every side the long sustained roar and rattle of the attack and defence began. Then, indeed, the hopeless condition of the besieged was seen at a glance. Around them on every side, high over the devoted lines, and down in grassy nooks, where no on one dreamt that guns lay lurking, came the roar of guns which seemed to shake the air. From the rifle pits on the right front a constant sputtering fire was poured into every embrasure, while from the trench cavalier we have spoken of as looking into the demi-bastion of the red an came volleys, which swept the parapets opposed to it tar and near. Though supposed to be surprised, disheartened, and over matched, yet tha garrison, to do them justice, stuck to their posts as manfully as if they were Danes; all their guns were worked at the double quick, giving shot for shot as well as they could to the besiegers, while the infantry lined the parapets, and at least replied to if they could not keep down the volleys of musketry which were poured into them. But now a new foe came upon the scans. With the first signal the boats from the men-of-war had started towards the creek, and taking up dif ferent positions, so as to enfilade some of the de fences, kept up a steady, rapid fire, supposed to be of shell, into nearly half the works, which now were encircled with attacking guns close in their front on land, but not harassed by the quick distant fire of the boats at sea, which were so actively engaged pressed on every side the beseiged, as a last as to cover the M e d way with wreaths of smoke. Thus res ource, sprang th e i r two mines—one under the which was d o i ng cavalier, them such murderous mischief, one under the lodgment the enemy had effected in the redan. As the spectators were so close to these spots both the mines were of small h only sufficient to de s t roy the profile of the worksarg e a s ' rid drive the enemy oat of them, which they c did most effectually. Thus for a moment relieved, the besieged turned their attention to the boats, and GOLD AND SILVER.—There was no gold sent into,the Bank on Tharsday, £31,000, on the other hand, was withdrawn for export. A little more demand pre vailed for silver, at a slight advance, for transmission to India. i n every stage, are oily ag liv[eAr,DavnEd"stiosmEmacElNi gravatea and accele ra t e d by drugs of every description, but T.]m—pCioanirtsra, ption, all nervous, bilious perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914, Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with ftarful cough, expectoration, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks, emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fleshy Lange, Commissaire de Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frinileyl Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting - of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Mi ss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had re s i s t ed all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 25 9d; 21b, 45 6d; us; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40 s . Barry du Barry and Ca., No. 77,' Regent-street, Londo n ; a lso Fortnum and Mason ; and all grocers and ebewbotv in every town of the United Kingdom The lonians and the English Troops, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. .......—..-4.---______ THE SPECTATOR.—Is the Ministry trying to The following compliments have been inter- trick the country ? We feel it hard to believe that changed between the Municipal Council of Corfu a Cabinet of which E ar l R usse ll i s a mem b er is lendingitself to any att empt o f t h e ki nd, b ut facts and the commander of the garrison : • ~-* look very like it. Certainly if they were To THE ENGLISH GARRISON. begin, a.- - ' - nosition in which they could be- Valiant Sons of England,—By a generous decision of trying to obtain ..,, ~o ut r... '-k of a sudden explosion tray Denmark with your august Queen the wishes of thi s G rec i an l and have . and Parliament been granted, and you are about to leave this island, on of wrath from the constituenoter) _ ' -in g now. which you have resided with us for half a century ; an d they:would do very much what they are us... - v nobly have you behaved towards us. Ten days ago they had apparently reached the Tt. __ . .. The Municipal Council of this island, under the influence of the unspeakable joy which it experiences in this memo rable change in its destiny at the moment of its entering a new career of national existence, cannot without emotion witness your departure and leave unexpressed the senti ments of sympathy that it entertains for the great nation to which you belong. As free citizens of a free nation you will not be indignant at the exuberant joy of a people passing from foreign pro tection to national liberty, nor will you consider it in any way connected with your departure, which affects us exceedingly and causes us to express from our hearts the warmest wishes for your welfare, and for that of your illustrious country to which we feel bound by ties of gratitude and hope. Farewell, brave sons of England. Forget, as we do, whatever nily tend to mar our mutual love. Love us as we love you, and desire that we may imitate your national virtues. last limits of concession, surrendered the honour of Denmark, and seriously risked that of England in a last endeavour to conciliate men who are under a monomania. They, the authors of the treaty of 1352, who had pledged themselves that if Den mark were assailed she " should not stand alone," who had admitted in writing the duty of main taining the " integrity and independence" of their little ally, had proposed her dismemberment, had proposed to give the assailant a limb if only he would consent to spare the rest of the bleeding trunk. Denmark, after a natural emotion of dis gust, remembered that she Was weak,and that jus tice had ceased for the moment to be a principle in politics, and accepted the neutral offer as her own ultimatum, Her representatives had,to show their sincerity, declined to extend the armistice beyond a fortnight, preferring rather to perish in a new D. COURCOUMELY, Regent. S. A. MusToxini. G. TOMBRO. A. TRIFONA. M. PADOVAN. campaign than to suffer the enemy to live at ease in Danish provinces, and lose all chance of inflict ing retribution by sea. The Germans not only declined the neutral offer, but actually demanded instead of the line of the Schlei a line drawn through Apenrade, a territory equal to more than three-fifths of Schleswig, full of purely Danish villages, and far to the North of the only frontier which Denmark in any suture concession could hope to defend. The object of course was simply to make such arrangements as should make the annexation of Jutland a year or two hence an easy and comparatively bloodless pro ceeding. The old game of partition was to be played over again, with England and France for duped spectators. To this decision the invading Courts, though sorely annoyed by the refusal of the Prince of Augustenburg to promise that he will enslave his subjects as they have done, still adhere, the organ of Herr von Bismark declaring in words which must be his own, that they have such a ring of his voice, that the allies have only to remain in the Duchies they have conquered, and "see who will drive them out." Instead, however, of accept ing this reply, declaring the Conference at an end, and proposing to Parliament a definite line of ac tion, Earl Russell assents to an extension of the Conference for a fortnight, fixes the next meeting at an interval of seven days, gives Parliament no information, and to all human seeming intends, when the war recommences, to allow Denmark to be swallowed while standing idly by. After actually proposing the dismemberment of the Power he pro fessed to defend, after consenting to reward the Germans for an act of aggression without a pre text—compliance with their demands having been guaranteed by England, Russia, and France—he has not the nerve to enforce his own proposition, and allows himself to be beaten from point to point till, as was lately observed, "He won't give up Schleswig to Germany, but she may have the two halves." This will never do. Whatever the diver sity of feeling in Parliament on the subject of war for the Danes, we do trust there will be sufficient spirit left in the House of Commons, if the Confer ences rises re iqeeta, and the Premier declines to propose action, to punish the Ministry which has covered England with such disgrace. The internal difficulties of the Cabinet are no excuse for the conduct of its chiefs. Earl Russell has already stated that whatever the Queen's opinions, Her Majesty has always accepted constitutional advice, and it was no part of his duty so to frame that advice that it would be certain to be accept able. If he believed the circumstances demanded the despatch of the fleet to the Baltic, he should have sent the fleet to the Baltic or resigned. Nor is Mr. Gladstone's opposition to be considered a reason for quiescence when the dignity of Great Britain demanded energetic action. The Ministry may lose with him a strong section of its supporters ; but the whole nation is al ways in the majority, and it is to the nation that the Premier should have appealed. There is not a class in the country which would not have eagerly responded, which is not weary of German arrogance, sick to rage of Ger man interference in our affairs. So strong is the feeling, that were it not even now befooled by the false hopes held out by diplomacy the middle class might take the bit in its teeth, as it did in the days of the Crimean war, and read the Parliamentary chiefs a lesson which would send a dozen old men out of power, and bring the Times round one sud den gyration as the mouthpiece of war feeling. Unfortunate as the position of parties is, with the Court hampered by persona: ties, the Cabinet in two by financial fears, the Tory leaders either German in tone or afraid of responsibility, and all parties, so to speak, deprived of their natural chiefs, there is still, we trust, energy enough in the Commons to recognize and to brand failureso conspicuous. The Tories, so tar as public declarations go, are in this matter no more prepared to uphold the honour of the nation than the old Whigs, but at least they have not so mismanaged diplomacy as to make England the executioner of a victim on whose behalf her Premier had threatened war; they can stand aside, and let the burial proceed in a silence which, if it has in it little dignity, has at least less humiliation. Eng land has had many squeezable Ministries, but a Cabi net which could retreat five separate times from its own ultimatum rather than risk the anger of Herr von Bismark, which, after a voluntary pro mise of aid, could surredder first Holstein, then Schleswig in occupation, then Lauenberg, then bchleswig south of the Schlei in perpetuity, and now, perhaps, Schleswig south of Flensborg, and all this without a defeat, is a phenomenon in our annals. We trust Germany will not ask for Kent as inheritor of the Angles, for, for all that appears, these men would make that a " basis of a negotia tion." There is but one hope that we can perceive, either for the Ministry or for English honour. Lord Palmerston, unwilleg to close a grand career as the laughingstock of Europe, may at the eleventh hour insist on having his own way, declare that con cession has reached its limits, and at any risk, either of income-tax, or what he deems much more, upris ing of the nationalities, propose publicly that if the line cf the Schlei is passed, Great Britain will ap peal from the justice of Germany to that of the God who for ten centuries has blessed all English action. If he does, the position of parties in the house does not matter much, for the constituencies will be masters of the position, and we would not guarantee even Mr Gladstone a seat; if he does not, he may leave the task of safe inglorious government to Lord Clarendon, but his retirement will be passed among a people finally disenchanted of a long enduring faith in his honour and his pluck. THE LONDON REVIEW.—The policy of her Ma jesty's Ministers with reference to the Danish question formed the subject of a short but interest ing and animated debate in the House of Commons on Monday night. Mr. Disraeli became for once the organ of a feeling thoroughly general, both in Parliament and in the country, when he complained, in ind gnant language, of the manner in which the Government are concealing from the nation their course of action or inaction. It was, he argued, rather too much that the representatives of the English people should be the only persons kept, or supposed to be kept, in ignorance of the proceedings of the Conference. They did not desire to be ad mitted to a knowledge of the right of negotiation, but they had a right to know on what basis this was being conducted. Lord Palmerston had ob• tained their confidence by stating that he and his colleagues were about to uphold the Treaty of 1852. They had been willing to abstain from embarrassing discussions, and to restrain their natural curiosity, lest they should endanger the success of policy of which they approved. But it was rather too much that the Government, having thus obtained complete freedom of action, should use it for the promotion of a measure --the dismemberment of Denmark—to which the house of Commons had never assented, and from whichthea large portion of th em were en ti re ly averse. right hon. gentl eman o b serve d, with unanswerable force, force, " no Minist e r is e ntitled to ask for parliamen tary reticence and reserve during h e negotiations, if ho has not first fulfilled progress of leietheagt his condition of such parliamentary reserve—that policy shall be known toth right,country t, hetf follows and aoywbs generally e a policypossible approved by Parliament . totally contrary, it may be to justify it ; but when that change take s pl ace, especially at a moment like the present, when the continuation of an armistice is in question, he is bound to come forward and frankly tell us, ' Our policy is changed. We aro perfectly prepared to vindicate our course. All we ask is that you should continue your confidence to us, or at least that you should call our conduct in question, and let it receive either the sanction or reprobation of the House of Commons.' " This is language con sistent both with the principles of the constitution and the dictates of common sense. Confidence in a Minister must have its limits. It is monstrous that he should assume an authority to commit the country irrevocably to one course, under pretence of pursuing another. And it is idle to justify his reserve towards the House of Commons—if, indeed, we should not characterise his conduct by a harsher word —on the plea that frankness would imperil the success of negotiations which it may well be that they are prepared to condemn. Lord Pal merston could make no reply—attempted to make no reply —to arguments so obviousand s so sound. He took refage in a palpable misre presentation of Mr. Disraeli's speech, and in the A. DELVINIOTTI. D. A. COURCOIMIELY, Secretary to the Municipal Council. Corfu, June 1, 1864. The following is the answer sent to the munici pality by Major-9enerai Sir Robert Garrett, K.C.B.:— On the eve of departure with the British troops under my command, whose duty of garrisoning the lonian Islands will this day cease, I hasten to thank you for the spirit in which the address which you transmitted to me yesterday for the English garrison has been framed, and for the ex pression of your warmest wishes for ourselves individually and for that of our country. On behalf of the garrison I beg most cordially to reciprocate our earnest wishes for the welfare of yourselves and for that of your country. To the President and members of the Municipal Council a very large portion of the inhabitants of this island, no doubt, look for countenance and support, and so long as they receive encouragement from yourselves to cherish feel ings of loyalty to your King, to practice obedience to the constituted authorities, to exert enzrgy and industry in following agriculture and commerce, and, at the same time, living in friendship and harmony with each other, they can hardly fail to attain, under Providence, that welfare which our country has mainly attained by adopting and observing these principles. In the name of the private soldiers whom I have the honour to command I request you will be pleased to make known to the inhabitants of the country round Corfu, and to those of the town itself, how fully they have appreciated the kindly feelings which they have unremittingly evinced towards them. Again repeating the assurances of our very best wishes for the welfare of you all, I now, in the name of the British garrison, bid you most heartily farewell. R. GARRETT, Major-General, Commanding the British in the lonian Islands. Extraordinary Charges of Cruelty by Parents to their Children, HERTFORD, Saturday Evening. This day, at the sitting of the county magistrates at the Town-hall, Hertford, Mr Besley, barrister, made applica tion for summonses against John Joseph Slowe, a bailiff and head gardener to Mr Baker, chairman of the bench of ma gistrates of the county, and Caroline his wife, for inhuman and gross cruelty to Annie Slowe, his daughter, 17 years of age, by beating, dragging her about by her hair, and other acts of an atrocious description. There are a number of other charges of a similar nature against other members of the family, but action was only taken at present as regards the one above stated. The magistrates on the bench were W. R. Baker Esq. (chairman), W. Parker, EFq., J. True man, Eq., H. Gusting, Esq., Wynn Ellis, Esq., and C. J. Dimsdale, E.tq. Mr Bosley, barrister, instructed by Messrs Shaen and Roscoe, on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, appeared for the complainant, and having stated the matter to the bench, Mr Longmore, the Town Clerk, suggested that they should take sufficient evidence to warrant the granting of a summons. The magistrates said that the complainants had better be sworn, which was done. Mr Longmoro then read the following statement:— Annie Slowe—l am servant to Mr Bussey, of 14. Eton villas, Haverstock-hill, London. lam a single woman. I was 17 in December last. I lived with my father and mothor, John Joseph Slowe and CarolineaSlowe, at Bay fordbury, till September last. My father is gardener and bailiff to Wm. Baker, Esq., and we lived on his estate. I was away from home once for about twelve months at Sheffield with my brother. With that exception I have always lived at home till I left last September. My father and mother have both constantly beaten and otherwise ill-used me as long as I can recollect anything. For the most trifling offences I have been most severely beaten with whips, ropes, and sticks. When I was very young I was constantly severely beaten by my mother because I could not say the word temptation in try prayers. On one occasion, about four or five years ago, I was tied quite naked in an arm chair, and my father threw several bowls of cold water over me, after which I was taken from the chair and severely beaten. On another occasicn my mother threw a saucepan at me because it was not cleaned properly, and then she told my father to punish me for it. My father then seized me by the hair of the head and threw me down with my face upon some rough matting, and knocked my face upon the mat ting till it bled from every part. I received the last beating from my father in August last, because I had not cleaned the house to my mother's satik faction. She complained of me to my father, and he said, " Now, my lady, I give you ht if and hour. Clean the furniture in this room, clean the grate, and set the room in order." I could not get the work done in the time, although I tried to do so; and my father then took a stror.g stick, held me by one hand, and got a table between us, so that I could not close with him to avoid the blows, and gave me a most severe beating. Sooh after this in consequence of the threats of my father and mother I ran away from home to avoid further ill treatment. I believe it was on the 2d September when I left home. I have lived in London eve!. since. Up to the time that I left home my sister Isabella, who is about two years younger than myself, was treated with greater severity than I was, both by my father and mother. My sister Caro line, who is several years older than I am, and has very bad health, was also subjected to the same ill-usage when ever she was at home. My mother generally instigated my father to beat us. Annie Slowe said the statement read was quite true. Mr. Besley wished to state the reasons why this matter had remained over since August. About this time an aunt named Hills was staying with Slowe and his wife for a few days, and her presence caused partly a cessation of the punishment, but Annie was promised a double quantity when she left, and those threats so operated on her feelings that on the 2d of September, before her father and mother had come down stairs, she determined on running away, and as she had no money of her own she took 8s from her aunt's pocket, She walked to Cole-green station at an early hour in the morning, and made her way to London. She wanted to go to Mr. Bussey's, at Haverstock-hill, where her sister was, hit she could not find it, and she then made her way to the Servants' Home, where her father found her and took away all her clothes except what she was wearing. She remained at the Servants' Home for three weeks, and was protected by her sister's mistress until a situation was found for her with a Mrs. S. Ford, of Long-acre. She re mained with her for three months, but taking the small-pox she became the inmate of an hospital for two months. When she came out she went for a time to her sister's, and after wards to Mrs. Bassey's, as nursemaid, where she was at present. That would account why the matter had not been brought forward before. Mr. Longmore asked the girl why she had not complained before, and she said she was afraid to do so. The Chairman said there had been a private investigation, and as nothing had subsequently occurred how was it that the subject had been brought up again ? Mr Besley said the reason was, that a scrap of paper, evidently posted surreptitiously, was received by Mrs. Winston from her sister Caroline, in which she alluded to her sister Isabella, who was still at home, and about whom she was most anxious. In this paper she said that Isabella was undergoing the most severe ti eatment, and that unless soon rescued would sink under it, and she went on to say that a fortnight after wards the same sister was seen with a severe cut on the face, known to be result of her father's brutality. She went on to allude to two other younger sisters, Mary Ann and Florence, aged 9 and 11 years, and she said she believed they had been well treated up to the present, and had not received corporal punishment, but these children from their infancy had suffered great mental agony in consequence of being compelled to bo witnesses of the sufferings of their sisters. The object of this application was mainly for the protec tion of the y ounger c hil dren, and it was with this view that the society felt it to be its duty to make the present appli cation to the b enc h f or a summons against t h e p ar ents of these children. The magistrates having conferred for a few minutes toge ther, Mr. Dimsdale said that the summons would be granted The hearing of the case will therefore stand for a future day, AN AFFECTING SCENE!—When the name of the French winner of the Grand Prix was announced, says the Spectator, the Duc de Morny, President of the Legislative Body, wept upon the bosom of the owner, M, Delamarre, as an evidence of his patriotism. angry repetition of an irrelevant challenge to the Opposition. We fear it is too true that the Conservatives, as a party, are little more die. posed than the Whigs to adopt a vigorous and manlY course. But the Opposition are not bound to lay down a policy, while it is the first duty of a Go vernment to do so. It is no excuse for the weakness, the vacillation, or the ambiguous conduct of those who hold office that their successors would probably do no better, and might—though that is scarcely credible—do worse. THE "EXAMINER" ON CONVICT DISCIPLINE.-- have - w. long been convinced that the co nvict licensing . :vstem is incurably bad, and shou ld be ether. The supervision of the pol ice abolished ;n - other. The the contrary, wi ll be a bar will not mend it, but, criminals if they hav e an y to the reforniution of the' ° . an d honest course s . disposition disposition to take to indust , . As the Chancellor objects, the s.: oervision w a brand on the convict, shutting bib:, o ut frota,eZi ployment and honest intercourse. The man . go out of jail with a broken fetter attached to he by which he will be dragged back to crime. 1t has any sense, together with improved dispoaitle he will refuse to accept liberty o n such term e r an d will rather wait for the expiration of his senten",,.: when he will go forth a free man, instea d of at au. bird with a clipped wing. The discharged ea e° l s' has a fair field before him if his dispositions are fair: g his past may be unknown, and retrieved b y couduct. The police have no right to 6PY aPooao b e him, or meddle with him in any way, s o long as in ee obeys the laws and lives honestly. lie passes frc'w. the jail, mixes in the crowd, and may beg in a career without prejudice or impediment of Dili kind. But the unhappy ticket-of-leave man' tracked from his fi rst quitting the jail, and raa.e: to report himself periodically to the Pell a iii ; will never get away from his character• character may be changed, but the bra nd character upon it remains unchanged and conspicuous. And because of the very be,P. O of him it is that he is to be placed in this hopele; condition. Becasue it is thought that he MaY. r ,, form he is to be practically cut off from reforrnatleou; If the man is not to be trusted, keep the jail (3 1 t closed upon him ; but to trust him so far ae to e him out, and then to retract the trust b V P a , t ,t il l him under the eye of the police, is a gross ag01,",; chievous inconsistency, cruelly defeating the e;slv. of reformation. When the convict who has ", ; a undergone his punishment is discharged, it maY:l;e be with the slightest expectation or hope th at. ' n ' t, will change his evil ways, but, trustworthy or forth he must go, free for good or ill ; and Why not the same course be taken with men of er'::at better hopes can be entertained ? It may be ° b . '. not to abridge sentences at all, but if they are W ie abridged we are quite sure that the true polio/di, not to hamper the granted liberty with any O a ," tions which may be adverse to the recovery of ° ,1 1 , 1 racter and honest employment. We are he er ';'. sick of the twaddle, for it is no better, about ~,Lh o working of the licensing system in Ireland._ system has only a partial success there, but it IL '', o the most complete, the state of opinion in Ire lae t.t to crime is so different from that in Englan d, bl ". , the same results could never be worked out, °P ra t cially with a machinery as different as tile I° llo element. When Mistress Deborah Woodcock t e ;0 her brother the Justice that the pretended 111111 :,.. 0 , master is a vagabond, Justice Woodcock ena, ° !; ‘ , a " What of that, you foolish old woman ? I d vagabond, I like a vagabond." And when 1 01°13 . l 8 is told that a man is a law-breaker, her reP i t e b much to the same effect. Ireland has not objection to convicts, nay, to some a decided Pr e ' t - b e ence is given. This being the case genere ll Y' to supervision of the police is clear of two dang er s It which' it will be exposed in this country the does not carry with it much prejudice spine t , r a convicts, nor mark them out for exclusion ireit employment and intercourse ; and this being does not tempt convicts to purchase the silence a te good report of the spies over them. Here We a certain of much of both these bad consequence.; and the supervision of the police will, w e a PIT o f hend, work the corruption of the police, la e P"" f. any checks that may be devised. The ti ckets° leave man always quits the jail with a little mon% money in his pocket, and he has the strong: t motive to obtain the silence of the aspolice as to vi he has been, and its good report to 'With so large a body as the police, and so varionelY composed, can we believe that there will not b. e . some corruptible, and the vice, once introd uCeds sure to spread P w h a t he ta. COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK---SATURDAY. There was only a moderate . supply of wheat at market to. day, and the buyers operated slowly, prices being the turn in their favour. Very little barley shown, trade limited' and last week's rates maintained, Oats healthy, at rather more money. Beans scarce, and a lair amount of business was done at the late extreme prices. Wheat, red 37a to 39s 1 Oats.... lBs to 20 5 White do .40s to 44s I Beans 33s to 35 1 Barley .26s to 30s Peas ....—s to --:' Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye, 28s per qr I • flour, 2 18 to,29siper sack. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat,:Als to 458 ; red, 38s to 41s per 36 5 t•,; new white, 40$ to 44s ; red, 3781t0 40s. Malting barley 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s; oats, old, 248 t 3 268; now, 20s to24s; beans, 34s to 38s; peas, 33s to 376. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. 36 New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; red,' 39s to 41s per stone. Old red, 38s to 42 s p e r 36 s tone. Barley, InalC s ' new, 31s to 35s_ per q r . ; gr i n di ng , 28s to 30s; old oa 26s to 30s ; new oats, 20s: to 24s per 24 stone. 13 e 4° ' old, 408 to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 25s to 30s per 20 atone' NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a good su pply o f w h ea t to-day, with aWO Tn inactive trade, at about the rates of this day se'Lmig- - other articles scarcely anything doing. White wheat. 42s to 44 8 1 Red wheat ........ 38s to 4 , 4 1 1: Malting barley ...35s to 36s 1 Chevalier bar1ey... 336 t° ' . 24, 3 to 2 60 Distilling do. 29s to 30s 1 0at5............ Flour, 25s Od to 26s Od per sack from the 'wilier. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. at A moderate show of wheat to-day, with a dull 112(1 111 _ 1.1 4i e t Barley limited in supply, barely late prices. In business, and last week's rates fully supported• in better demand, and late prices were supported. Beene d. good demand, at high prices, but scarce. Peas unebantese. —White wheat, from 378 to 408 ; red wheat, 3 65 pats, Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 2 9 5. t 881 sold a old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, 19s to 265. Beau s to 42s per fine, ; 27s new, 36s to 38s. e• iiFlour, fine, 27s to 29s ; super, 31s to 36s per 20 ston with!! qte DUBLIN—FRIDAY. bUt feW The market gener a lly no t so b r i s k as, last day; • ' ed. t liral t country buyers up, and trade in foreign Whet' ,wed. Maize Blow. Flour steady. Irish produce all macho 7 ... d. s. d. s. d. s. 0 . l 's 0 to 1 Wheat, white 24 0t026 6 0atmea1... ... 10 0 ..... 0 Do., new _2l 0 6 t t o o ..._ 2 4 0 0 B B o e r a o n ....... .......... _0 to a Do., red __„, 0 to .....! 5 ..... 0 to Barley Oats Do., black — oto 0 Indian corn .. 14 oto 2280 0 Foreign Mail Packet LiSt. MAILS DUE. J une 18 , Australia and Mauritius, vi a S ou th amp t on . ..... • June 12. via Marseilles ......... Ju ly 5. Brazil and Cape Verde, by Briti s h p ac k e t. ....... - 29, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. du ll s. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 1 2. via Marseilles ...June Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June --. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton JunelB n. v i a Marseilles June I‘' 1 India (Bombay), via Southampton • June 1 —• via Marseilles June 20. Portuga 1.... via Marseilles July 5 Malta, Egypt, and Adon, via Southa mpto n July 6. Newfoundland .......... Oporto and Vigo ............ U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 16. by U.S. packet.... _ by Canadian paeket.June:l 7. , All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peruf J June 13. California. and B ritish Columbia. Births. • DELAIAIIN.—On the 3d inst., at Wek-hill, Jersey, th e wife of Colonel C. H. Delamain, C.B. of a son. D'EYNCOURT —.On th e 1 0th inst., at 27, Warwick-84u are, the Lady He nr i e t ta D'Eyncourt, of a daughter. „ err PENNANT.—On the 10th i ns t ,at Formosa, near bial u head, the wif e o f George Douglas Pennant, Es4', of a eon. Marriages. DATIES — jENKINS.—On the 9th inat , at Cardig an, of . Davies, Esq., of Bank House, Cardigan, m a yor , Borough, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Grit Uta Jenkins, Esq., of Panterion, Pembrokeshire. ViraterS HIGGINS—GROIICOCK.— On the 9th inst., at Uoton, John Higgins, Esq., of Lubstre-park, Shrop' aS shire, to Elizabeth , eldest daughter of the late T horn Groucock, Esq., of Meeson, Shropshire. Deaths. CLOWES.—On the 10th inst., at Ealing, Edmun d CloWth Esq., late or Warton, Lancashire, aged 7 8 . MILES—On the 10th inst., at his residence, 3 , Yo rk- P ia l Thornton-heath, Surrey, James Miles, Esq., late o King's-road, Chelsea, aged 54. POWLETT,-- 011 the 9th inst., at Homingham, the Bon. Charles William Powlett, only son of Lord and La cl f Bayning, aged 19. SCOTT.—On the 10th inst. J at Belgan, Ireland, the Louisa Scott, widow ofJames B. be y ott, QX , au 0 corle third daughter of the late Hon. and Most Lev. Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel, aged 71. TEMPEST.—On the 11th inst., at 33, Chester-square, Lora Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P., aged 39. THOMAS.—On the 9th inst., in Blomfield, Harrowroad, Colonel Alfred Thomas, late of the Bombay Army. London: Prin:ad and Pt fished by WILLL&Pd ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TtiE SUN Office No. 110, Strand, , n the Precinct of the Savoy, n the coup,/ of Inadiebex.---Monday, June 13, 186/.